TC setup with college-bound MacBook Pro.

I'm about to set up my daughter's new Time Capsule to back up her MacBook Pro. Tomorrow she goes back to college, which has its own wireless network(like most colleges). The setup instructions are confusing, referring to connecting to the modem in our house. Since she's going to use this primarily at school, do I need to set up through our HOME wireless network? Can I simply connect the TC to the MacBook via Ethernet and back up that way? How will that affect future, wireless backups? Sorry for the stupid questions but I don't want to screw this up. Thanks in advance.

It is hard to do both wireless to the uni system and wireless with the TC.. you must pick and choose one or the other unless you setup the TC to actually join the wireless at the Uni. And then suffer whatever routing issues happen from double NAT or whatever.
It is much easier to use ethernet.. even if it is a bit of pain to remember to do it.. that will be more reliable.

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